“Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up,” the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said in a statement. Turney explained that “climate change may have prompted the iceberg to shatter and float into the previously open sea where the mostly Australian team finds itself stranded.” “The ice was swept across to this area by the South-East wind, its pieces creating a knock-on domino effect,” Turney said. “We were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Anyone familiar with Antarctic sea ice would knows that it has been at or near record expansion the past several years and global warming models have mostly predicted reduced Antarctic sea ice allegedly due to global warming.

No Antarctic Warming Since 1979 – According to Chris Turney, leader of the expedition trapped in the ice off the coast of Antarctica, the expanding sea ice has been caused by global warming. He obviously has not bothered checking the facts. First, a look at UAH satellite temperature anomalies for the region. The purple line is the trend, not the mean, but as can be seen is, to all intents and purposes flat. Any trend is actually negative. – And Southern Ocean Sea Temperatures from Bob Tisdale.

2013 was a banner year for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent — ‘The highest maximum for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent of all time was set on October 1st 2013. The highest average anomaly for a year occurred in 2013. 2013 averaged 850,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean’

35-Year Cooling of South Pole Confirmed By NASA – Antarctica Ice Sheets Safe — ‘NASA’s satellites have now been measuring global temperatures for a full 35 years (420 months through November 2013), including the Antarctic. The above chart documents the measured southern polar region temperatures. As can be seen, there has been a cooling trend – granted, a very tiny -0.04°C/century, but it remains far removed from the IPCC’s unicorn science of “amplified” and dangerous polar warming. And not only has it not warmed, the Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record amount.’

Clitantic Expedition Communication Director Alvin Stone: ‘Climate Warming Led To The Vessel’s Awkward Predicament’! – Add another to the list of things claimed to be caused by global warming: Vessels getting trapped in unexpected sea ice! Alvin Stone, media manager of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition: ‘Indications are that it is precisely climate warming that led to the vessel’s awkward predicament’ Reality Check to Alvin Stone: ‘As ice on the continent grows, so would the rate of calving due to pressure. Again we are being asked to accept that increased sea ice is a sign of climate warming, and the same goes for a decrease.’

c.turney@unsw.edu.au – ‘As they are transferred to sanctuary aboard the icebreaker Aurora Australis, Professor Turney and his fellow evacuees must accept the embarrassing failure of their mission shows how uncertain the science of climate change really is. They cannot reasonably do otherwise. –Editorial, The Australian, 2 January 2013‘

You know the whole AGW obsession is a farce when they claim all weather conditions, warm or cold, supports their wacky beliefs.

cousinarlo

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

That pretty much sums up the position of the “blame-man” side. They just make sh** up as they go along.

Above all, pay no attention to the lying men behind the East Anglia curtain! (apologies to Mr Baum)

sadatoni

Man-made Global Warming Theory: Anything and everything proves AGW.

GlynnMhor

“Clitanic” indeed…

American Voter

These “cooling-deniers” should be arrested, charged with “impersonating a scientist” and jailed immediately for perpetrating crimes against humanity!

http://www.arlnow.com/ duddlepuck

And furthermore, it is George Bush’s fault.

torvan

More lies by the ultra capitalists!
Global warming is real!!
Most of the images were photo shopped by the Murdoch nazis!!

gvanderleun

“Yeah, that’s the ticket: An iceberg corralled the vessel, and then froze the open sea for miles around it into an impenetrable, contiguous, solid mass of ice so thick that icebreakers couldn’t reach the ship…because of global warming.” Kate at Small Dead Animals

windy132

yep -70 across the mid west, Global Warming, of course.

Sporty

This article cites way to many facts. Come on….we need a carbon tax….just because…..think of the children!!

Patrick

Follow the money – there are $B at stake in research grants and other mitigation project work if this gains momentum at all…. Not unlike the Y2K hoax which created a similar revenue stream for those who perpetrated its myths… it doesn’t matter what the research or data suggests – it exists cause we say so…. where is the data to support… it doesn’t exist….